A CSN office operated within the President Secretariat

Oct 24, 2015

It is disclosed that the President Secretariat situated at the old parliament building in Colombo had a Carlton Sports Network (CSN) office located within a room.

During Mahinda Rajapaksa was the president and while there was a president media unit was in existence another media unit by the name of “president international media” unit was continued in a separate room within the president secretariat. This international media unit was operated for the CSN work and was used by Namal Rajapaksa and few of his female associates.

Although the Rajapaksa’s planned to take everything in the president secretariat following the defeat of the president election, they have forgotten to vacate this room. More than 500 DVD tapes and many important documents belong to the CSN are found within this room.

The President Secretariat has started looking what contains in those cassettes and documents. Meantime the president secretariat issearching what is this “president international media unit” and what was its scope. Following are the photographs of the room.

However President Secretariat is not a personal property of the Rajapaksa’s to partake. It is a public office maintained by people’s tax money. Using this office for Rajapaksa’s business is grave offence.

During the Financial Crime Investigation Department (FCID) it was revealed that the CSN was started by investing state resources and black monies earned by the Rajapaksa’s

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